Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-03-13
Here and There.

A citizen of Dursnd, Wis, scootine
down-hill on q toboggan ran into COW
and knocked her legs from under her
and she sat down on him and nearly
crushed him as fiat as his toboggan.
A vessel with cargo of forty-four
ostriches arrived recently at Galveston,
Tex. This is the second cargo within
twelve months. The birds are for o.
trich farms in California, aud came
from Natal.
The two copies OF the Bible used at
Queen Victoria's coronation are still in
existence. One is n heirloom in the
family of the late DR.. Sumner, bishop
of Winchester, and the other is pre-
served in the cathedral Of Norwich
The first meerschaum pipe was carved
in the Carly part of the Thirty Years
War, and Wallenstein is said to have
bought it, Now the average number
Of pipes turned out in the centre Of
pipe manufacture in Germany is 5f0,-
600 real meerschaums, 800, 900 imita-
ton meerschaums, 500, 900, 600 wooden
pipes of great variety, and many mil
lions Of clay-bowls.
A physician, referring to the custom
of travelling on sleeping-cars with the
berths made up with their heads toward
the engine, said at is certainly bad
for the brain OF the sleeper, as it is not
natural, and it is no wonder that 80
many travellers, especially those who
have been on the road exclusively, ex-
perience bad effects from it,"
A man dropped into the Office of the
Oneida IN. w. Dispatch the other day
and offered TO subscribe for two years
in advance if the proprietor would take
his pay in dogs. The editor replied:
"For many years have taken wood,
apples, potatoes, applejack, and all
sorts OF vegetables in payment of sub
scriptions, but there must be limit |
draw the line on dogs "
A Russian journal has Just published
an article ON the Donetz coal-field. 1t
is stated that the coal formations OF the
Don Cossacks district occupy a large
area in the provinces of Tcherkassy,
Donetz, and Mioussy. The richest
seams Of coal and anthracite are found
in the first-named province, on the
right bank of the Don, and the trade
has been already considerably de-
veloped.
The use OF the gall OF rattlesnakes is
warmly urged by NJ. Koscicky, Of Aus
trio, as an antidote for snake-bites. NJ.
Koscicky, who became acquainted with
the antidote at Venezuela, declares it TO
be both inexpensive and effective, as
well as instantaneous, in its operation,
crows and dogs in the last stage of the
poison recovering Immediately on the
remedy being administered TO them.
The cowboys have a language OF
their own. They call a horse-herder
/" horse-wrangler," and horse breaker
q "broncho buster" Their steed is
often q "cayuse, and 10 dress well is
to rag proper" When cowboy goes
out on the prairie he "hits the fiat"
is " family disturbance, and
to eat is to Chew" His hat is a
"cady," his whipa "quirt, his rubber
Goa. a "slicker," his leather overslls
are "chaps" or "chapperals," and his
revolver is a "45." Bacon is "over-
land trout" and unbranded cattle are
mavericks.
The Engineering Netrs, in the course
Of q long article on the substitution OF
steam heat for stove heat in railway
ears, shows that no more than from ~
TO 81 per cent. Of the locomotives sup
ply Of steam is required for heating the
average train. II adds that this guam
hty can be obtained without reducing
The load, increasing the heating sur
Iace, decreasing the speed, embarrassing
The loss by radiation. II is only neces-
'ary to push the fires little when the
locomotive 10 on . level or down = |
grade. and to use steam that can be |
spared while the train - resting at sta-
ions.